BFI and Film London put in charge of promoting British film – no funding for short film for the time being In July 2010 the British government decided to abolish… Read More
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From book trailer to Vook – A new short film niche
A new niche has now joined the ranks of the many already filled by short film: the so-called “book trailer”. Book trailers are used to market books online. The idea… Read More
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen launches Oberhausen Films Online
March 2011 saw the debut of “Oberhausen Films Online”, a new video-on-demand platform that functions as the virtual video library of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. On offer are… Read More
Future of Animate Projects in jeopardy
For more than 20 years Animate! in London has been the top address in the United Kingdom, if not all of Europe, for artistic animated film. Founded by legendary producer… Read More
Studio Filmbilder
On the art of creative equilibrium There’s a simple rule in the animated film business: if you want to live from animated film, you have to master the balancing act… Read More
Teaching Artists’ Films
by Stefanie Schlüter This text is the condensed version of a research paper commissioned by the International Short Film Festival (Oberhausen). The paper was presented to the public in a… Read More
For the Unrestricted Circulation of Short Films
Several generations of cinema-goers can probably still remember a time – and it is not even all that long ago – when short film, although still very lively, had almost… Read More
Film in the White Cube
Film in the White Cube – Philippe Parreno and the Serpentine Gallery demonstrate how to do it right Almost ten years ago we began to publish here texts on the… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2010 – a brief appraisal
Based on the impression that just a handful of short films scoop up the lion’s share of awards and honours each year all over the world, we now publish an… Read More
Die Kunst, Filme zu zeigen (09/09)
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Viva Photofilm – Moving/Non-moving
By photofilms we understand films that essentially consist of photographs. Photographs placed in a cinematic context create a filmic experience. In photofilms, the film medium is dissected into its components…. Read More
Agence du court métrage
Agence du court métrage tests distribution of digitised short films The French short film agency has been running its distribution network Réseau alternatif de diffusion (RADI) for 20 years now… Read More
Digital options for self-distribution of short films – an overview
Today, marketing and selling digital or digitised films online no longer poses any major technical problems, as filmmakers can draw on their experience with video and submission platforms. Tools for… Read More
News on Super 8 film
Although Super 8 plays a very minor role today now that the amateur film market has long since been swept up in the wave of digitisation, there is still a… Read More
25 years of Metrópolis
In our fast-paced times, it’s an unusual occurrence when a television show is able to celebrate its 25th anniversary. And when it’s a cultural programme – as in the case… Read More
B-Side gives up business
B-Side forced to close after five successful years when investors withdraw support About one year ago, we mentioned here on shortfilm.de the new business idea hatched by the Austin-based film… Read More
Bjørn Melhus
THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS – Bjørn Melhus doesn’t want to be forced to decide between Black Box and White Cube Bjørn Melhus is one of Germany’s best-known short-film makers… Read More
Arabshorts.net
Arabshorts.net – a platform for short films from Arab countries Since December 2009 the Goethe Institute in Cairo has been presenting young filmmakers from the Arab world on the website… Read More
Domino-Effekte und große Unterschiede (03/10)
Domino-Effekte und große Unterschiede – das 32. Festival International du Court Métrage Clermont-Ferrand 140.000 Besucher, 6.500 eingereichte Filme und 3.000 Akkreditierte machen das Festival International du Court-Métrage in Clermont-Ferrand am… Read More
Review of award-winning short films in 2009 – a brief appraisal
Prompted by the impression that just a handful of short films scoop up the lion’s share of awards and honours each year all over the world, we published here two… Read More
Public Relations – Film Festivals for Filmmakers
For most filmmakers, short film festivals and events represent the only opportunity they have to present their films to an audience. Any further exploitation of their work (such as TV,… Read More
European media funding
New questions on European media funding In our Topic article in September 2009 on the European MEDIA funding programme, we also mentioned support for film festivals. We referred there to… Read More
Best practice benchmarks for film festivals
Not all too long ago, short film festivals were few and far between. Their organizational form and mode of operation was pretty much the same all over the world. Festivals… Read More
Die Kunst, Filme zu zeigen (09/09)
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Lola Randl
The Grass Is Always Greener on the Other Side Elke and Iris are old friends who have lost track of each other somewhat over the years. Both are fast approaching… Read More
The MEDIA programme for Video on Demand projects – An excursion into European funding politics
The European Union has been granting funding for the digital distribution of audiovisual media since 2007 as part of its MEDIA Programme for the support of film and media. Projects… Read More
Chris Marker
Chris Marker, 88 years old, as newbie in Second Life On 29 July French filmmaker Chris Marker turned 88. As place of birth he likes to say the area around… Read More
Future Shorts – the international spread of an event model as franchise brand
This spring, a counter-statement posted on the German website of Future Shorts took public a conflict on the German short-film scene revolving around the practices of the Future Shorts initiative…. Read More